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Ticketmaster filed a 10-Q quarterly report yesterday. Now that it is a standalone company, it's easier to go through its financial performance than when it was part of IAC. And we're better able to see what companies like Live Nation are eager to capture for themselves.

WASHINGTON - Federal authorities announced Thursday that more than 400 real estate industry players have been indicted since March — including dozens over the past two days — in nationwide crackdown on mortgage fraud that has contributed to the country’s housing crisis.
The FBI put the losses to homeowners and other borrowers who were victims in the schemes at over $1 billion.

The media loves to challenge the veracity of pastors who financially prosper from their ministries.  The left challenges the oil industry because they actually make profits in their business.  But what about Al Gore? Nary a peep.

PRINCETON, NJ -- Today's Gallup Poll Daily tracking update finds Barack Obama with an eight percentage point advantage over Hillary Clinton (50% to 42%), this gives him a statistically significant advantage for the first time since before the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy.

Bush lackey Felipe Sixto has resigned when his criminal behavior was discovered.

An aide to President Bush has resigned because of his alleged misuse of grant money from the U.S. Agency for International Development when he worked for a Cuban democracy organization.

Does it bother you to see a teacher using his students as little political activist tools? It sure bothers me. Check out the letters the Heartland Institute received from some 6th graders in California.

Photos taken March 1-2, 2008.

Historic entrance to the cave.

Through the squeeze.

Looking above.

Looking below.